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Researchers uncover subspecies of chimpanzees despite isolation events
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Berlin [Germany], March 5 (ANI): A new large-scale study led by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology uncovered recent genetic connectivity between chimpanzee subspecies despite past isolation events.
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Evolution may be to blame for high risk of advanced cancers in humans
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): Compared to chimpanzees, humans are particularly prone to developing advanced carcinomas -- the type of tumors that include prostate, breast, lung and colorectal cancers -- even in the absence of known risk factors, such as genetic predisposition or tobacco
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Hyderabad Zoo's popular inmate Chimpanzee 'Suzi' dies
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], November 13 (ANI): Nehru Zoological Park's most popular inmate "Suzi", the Chimpanzee, died on Thursday after suffering a heart attack.
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Bharat Biotech inks licensing deal with WUSM to advance COVID-19 intranasa
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 24 (ANI): Vaccine Innovator, Bharat Biotech on Wednesday announced, a licensing agreement with Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in St. Louis for a novel chimp-adenovirus, single dose intranasal vaccine for COVID-19.
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Hyderabad's Nehru Zoological Park celebrates 34th birthday of chimpanzee '
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 15 (ANI): Hyderabad’s Nehru Zoological Park on Wednesday celebrated 34th birthday of chimpanzee “Suzi”.
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Chimpanzees help trace evolution of human speech back to ancient ancestors
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], May 27 (ANI): In a study conducted by a group of researchers, one of the most promising theories for the evolution of human speech has finally received support from chimpanzee communication.
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Researchers' take on left-brain might not be right, study explains
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 16 (ANI): The long-held notion that the human pattern of brain asymmetry is unique has now been challenged by scientists. The team found the same asymmetry pattern in chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.
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Chimps held captive for experiments given new lease of life
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Georgia [USA], Feb 9 (ANI): A video of chimps that were held captive for research experiments being set free out in the open has melted several hearts on the internet.
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ED enables Kolkata Zoo to retain 7 smuggled wildlife animals
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Sept 21 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday enabled Kolkata Zoo to retain three chimpanzees and four marmosets that were among the smuggled animals' category.
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AI to help identify chimpanzee faces in the wild
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 8 (ANI): New AI software will now help wildlife conservationists to recognise individual faces of chimpanzees further helping them by saving time and resources, claim researchers.
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Chimpanzees may adapt to human developed habitats better than natural one:
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Chimpanzees may adapt to human developed habitats better than their natural one. However, researchers emphasized that their survival is still threatened.
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BBC presenter fired after posting picture of chimpanzee with royal baby tw
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 9 (ANI): Danny Baker, the BBC presenter, was sacked after he tweeted a picture of a couple holding hands of a chimpanzee, captioning it: "Royal Baby leaves hospital."
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